Come enjoy an inspired evening of performances, live painting, $2 art, drop-in sketching table & quirky people get together! It’s open to all ages and free!

Here are some of of the participating artists who will be joining us this time:

Artists Murphy Adams and Christine Benjamin whose feature show “The Weird and the Wonderful” is up in the main gallery will be there doing collaborative drawings which they’ll have for sale. They’ll also be on hand to answer questions about their work. Each artist will start a drawing then switch, coming up with something completely unique in the spirit of the Exquisite Corpse.

This upcoming Two Buck, get a dose of the high fashion that will be featured at the Blitz Runway show that will be on the main stage of the upcoming 6th Annual SubZERO Festival!  Lacey Bryant, one of the collaborating artists for the fashion show, will be practicing some of the face paint techniques that we will be showcasing on the runway in exchange for donations! Help us put on this awesome event and get some cool designs on your face at the same time!

The San Jose Yarnbombers will be working on their upcoming yarnstorm.  Stop in and knit or crochet a 6 inch square and you can be a part of the action!  You can also help us stitch squares together into patchwork.  We'll bring the yarn, you bring your needles or hooks.  If you have squares to drop off, this would be a great time to bring them by, too! 

Lara Sophia will host a meditation, yoga, martial arts themed drawing session.  Bring your sketch pads and draw folks in poses of concentration or take a turn posing yourself while others draw you.

Live Art By:

David Mejia

Erica Atreya

Jeff Bramschreiber

Nik Caesar

Felipe Jimenez

John Hageman

Al Preciado & friends

Nicholas Jimenez

Enjoy Live Music By Rebelskamp!

TWO BUCK Tuesday is May 21st, 7pm-10pm!

88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
San Jose, CA 95112
info@KALEIDGallery.com
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm
Free admission

A team of friends (Eric Belladonna, Ana Villafañe, Alvaro Aguiar & Drew Clark) are creating a runway fashion show for the upcoming 6th Annual SubZERO Festival on First Friday June 7th in the SoFA District.

"The BLITZ" runway show brings together conceptual high fashion and street wear into something bold and beyond the zeitgeist. Inspired by the New Romantics Era, BLITZ will showcase the artists and businesses who inspire us: local boutiques with lovingly curated collections that keep us from having to travel elsewhere for awesome clothes, all of which can be found in a keepsake look-book, and you can shop these designers and venders on-site at SubZERO after the fashion show!

"By helping us out with a contribution, you'll be working with us to put on this event that celebrates fashion here in Silicon Valley. We promise you that this show will be great; It will be opulant and grand, an experience for the senses that won't easily be forgotten!"

Check out the video and more info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/subzero-runway-show

The ArtBox Project is busy with the nice weather and we're looking for new artists that would like to join us! If you'd like to do an ArtBox for the citizens of San Jose, please email us at info[at]PhantomGalleries.com !

Coincidence by Sergej Vutuc & Shawn Whisenant

Sergej and Shawn are two very different people from two opposite sides of the world (Germany & San Francisco) but in some ways are very alike by sharing the same passions and interests in art, photography, zines & skateboarding.

Sergej Vutuc has been traveling through out the United States for the last two months zig-zagging his way across Philly, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and Portland. All the while doing art shows, skateboarding, making music, zines and photographing it all!

Shawn Whisenant is a sign painter & a curator at the Book and Job gallery in San Francisco. He spends his days making art and shooting photographs of whatever subjects that catch his eye. See more of

Together Sergej and Shawn will combine both their very different worlds into one installation.

Saturday the 18th of May, 7pm to 11pm

Seeing Things Gallery
30 North Third St.
San Jose CA

I No Nothing is a new exhibition by Blaise Rosenthal at The Factory Outlet Gallery in his hometown of Mokelumne Hill in Calaveras County, CA from May 18 through June 30, 2013.

from gallery website:
Artist Blaise Rosenthal takes over Factory Outlet Gallery with a collection of minimalist line drawings that come together to form an installation called I No Nothing. The title Rosenthal has chosen for this exhibition, which marks his first solo show in Mokelumne Hill, his home town, can be read as a statement interrupted, 'no nothing' becoming 'nevermind' -- beginning to tell and then deciding against it. Then again the phrase might also be interpreted as a double negative, 'no nothing' equaling something. In Rosenthal's work "certainty is fleeting and the ground always gives way to reveal new potential depths for consideration." It is in this slippery space that each framed drawing -- a world of its own -- becomes something greater when considered in combination with its neighbors. Zooming further out, the introduction of a sculptural element transforms the whole gallery into an unexpected landscape, an unlikely vista in the middle of this gold rush town.

Factory Outlet Gallery
8299-B Main Street
Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245
Phone: 209-286-1174

Join us this Friday, May 3rd at KALEID Gallery for the opening reception of The Weird and the Wonderful by Murphy Adams and Christine Benjamin. Two talented artists that devote their unique painting styles to very accessible quirky narratives.

The Artists' reception is Friday, May 3rd 7-11pm and is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk. See full line up at www.southfirstfridays.com

88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
San Jose, CA 95112
info@KALEIDGallery.com
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm
Free admission

rEVOLVEr
An all female artist' salon

Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 7pm-11pm

Studio Bongiorno
500 Lincoln St.
Santa Clara, Ca. 95050
408.217.9346

New completed painting (on a corner utility box) by the amazing Frances Marin for our ArtBox Project on the corner of Pearl Ave & Branham Lane (off of 87) in San Jose.

The sponsors wanted some historical content on their box, so Frances came up with the great idea of creating a perspective for the viewer of being inside the old General Store looking out.

If you're an artist that would like to join our project, please email us at info[at]PhantomGalleries.com and we'll get you more details.

Thrush, new works by Kim Christman
Artist's Reception: April 26th, 7-10pm
featuring DJ sets by Frances Marin

Exhibition on view through May 20th

The Usuals
1020 The Alameda
San Jose

Rocks, Waves & Clouds: New Scroll Paintings of Matthew Bailey Seigel

Similar to traditional Asian scrolls, Matthew's paintings capture the impermanence of an idea or location. His new paintings were inspired by the natural beauty of a low tide walk along Maine's rocky coast.

Overwhelmed with the colors, forms and relationships of rocks, the sea and sky, Matthew immediately set up an impromptu studio on his father's farmhouse porch. The result are these modern, vibrant scrolls in two sizes, acrylic on synthetic rice paper, hung on aluminum rods.

His brush work is fast, improvisational, fluid, playful, never repeating, conveying core elements of "rocks, waves and clouds". Distilled to their essence. The only element missing is the smell of balsam fir.

Matthew is excited to have a solo show in the Velcro Gallery and invites you to experience Maine.

The gallery is open with the artist in attendance on Saturdays May 4 & 18, Noon-6pm.
Other times by appointment.

Velcro Gallery
560 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-593-7755

Velcro Gallery is less than 2 blocks from Caltrain station, and short
walk to museums. Map


Join us at KALEID Gallery for this upcoming TWO BUCK Tuesday, April 16th, 7pm-10pm!

Come enjoy an inspired evening of performances, live painting, $2 art, drop-in sketching table & quirky people get together! It’s open to all ages and free!

Life Drawing by Philip Vose
Bring your pencils and sketch pads for a Costumed Life Drawing session with Lara Sophia and her lovely models!

Sculptor David Canavese will give a free workshop teaching you some of his papercraft skills! All materials are provided.

LIVE ART by:
James Pollard

Jehoiakim Santos

Felipe Jimenez 

Force 129 will be selling his $2 jars

Nic Caesar - $10 sketches on demand. 

John Hageman
Jeff Bramschreiber

Steven Reece

Al Preciado: “El Jeffe and the Crew”

Cecile F. Zapanta

Maricruz Mendoza
Leeonista

LIVE MUSIC by:

Chris Reed (http://www.ChrisReedMusic.com)

Live Jazz DJ set from Andrew Sparacino of D’n’∆

TWO BUCK Tuesday is April 16th, 7pm-10pm!
Free & open to all ages

88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
San Jose, CA 95112
info@KALEIDGallery.com
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm
Free admission

VANITAS at KALEID Gallery, opens First Friday June 7, 2013, part of San Jose's South FIRST FRIDAY Art Walk.

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. ~ Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

A Vanitas is a work of art based on the idea of the transience of human existence and the knowledge that all has it's end. They have been common throughout the history of art, sometimes incredibly morbid with a sharp focus on death, others with obscured meaning hidden beneath a veneer of beauty. We'd like to invite you to create a Vanitas and interpret this classical theme in your own unique / visionary way.

Check out the wiki link for a little more inspiration about Vanitas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas

The VANITAS exhibit will be our June thru mid July exhibition. In addition to KALEID artists, we are reaching out to other artists in the South Bay area in an effort to share our space and community with other talented artists.

For more information on how to participate, please email us at info[at]KALEIDGallery.com.

Phantom Galleries is the artistic director of San Jose's ArtBox Project in partnership with founder Tina Morrill.

The ArtBox Project brings original works of art into San Jose neighborhoods by coordinating talented artists to paint their unique imagery on utility boxes sponsored by neighborhood sponsors.

We are seeking more artists for this amazing community project. More details and stipend info available by emailing us at info[at]phantomgalleries.com.

Out of Towners
Saturday, April 20th, 7-11pm

Seeing Things Gallery
30 No. Third St.
San Jose, CA

The Consulate General of Mexico is proud to present:

From the Earth to the Spirits
a photography exhibit by Alejandra Cano

In this photographic series, Alejandra Cano tells us the the mystic path of Mezcal, from being a precious gift to the tavern, where it alleviates the troubled spirits

Through this wonderful collection of images that distill and life, the artist will take us on a journey from the to the cup; from the Palenque, its stills and its mules, that kisses and caresses, that absolves, comforts and resurrects damned.

Opening cocktail: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 6:30-8:30pm
Please send RSVP by April 18th to aosorio@consulmexsj.com

Exhibition: April 24-July 7, 2013

Mezcal Restaurant
25 W San Fernando St,
San José, CA 95113